Information Design: April 2011

Wow.

"Moviebarcodes is a tumblr blog from an unknown author that posts these images generated from different movies. Each frame of the movie is stretched tall and thin to create this single image from an entire movie."
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From Wired:
The person behind MovieBarcode, who wouldn’t reveal their identity or what they do for a living, told Wired.co.uk that the creative process can take a few hours on the slightly aged machine they are being processed on, “depending on the length of the movie and the quality of the outcome”.
Movies on the blog are chosen “due to the expected result, not for the movies themselves”. Besides colourful movies, the blog author prefers “movies with long shots such as Kubrick, Hitchcock and Weerasethakul, which can result in unique and interesting moviebarcodes”."

from 'Rope'

from 'Toy Story'

from 'Bladerunner'

I just think this whole idea is really cool! Although the images aren't always that fascinating, I just think the idea behind it is really interesting.
They're all available at: http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/

Video design, BT Commercials

"BT Financial Australia created a series of video commercials called The Bigger Picture using florescent light tubes to animate growth charts in the infographic ads."

These are really cool, it's nice to see information visualised in such an innovative way, it's really clear and visually pleasing. I love the way they take basic information such as graphs and make them beautiful.
Sometimes the videos don't appear on this page.. jsut double click the spaces and they pop up!)

And there's a 'making of' video.. It's cool!

Infographics - BAD examples

This is so ugly, fair enough it looks 'sciencey' but the monotonous colour scheme and awful font make it incredibly boring.

This example isn't half as bad but I still do not enjoy the fairly boring layout, it is possible to display a lot of information in a simplostic way without producing huge lists and graphs.

Infographics - some GOOD examples

I love this, the colour scheme is really effective and in short, it is just really interesting to look at, I aim to produce something that is hopefully as visually appealing as this, so that it comes across as art. before information.

I also like this example, it is clear and concise, with a very effective colour scheme. It isn't the most complicated, but it utilises simplicity very effectively.

This diagram is fairly useful, I like how (even though it does not have to give a large amount of information) it displays it's purpose clearly and is visually appealing.

Infographics

I have come to the conclusion (from trawling through hundreds of pieces of information design) that I particularly like the style of infographics, I'll use this blog to show research into my task, with most practical work being digital/sketchbook based.
The information that I have decided to base my work around is from this website http://www.wttc.org/eng/Tourism_News/Press_Releases/Press_Releases_2003/Latest_Statistics/
It's basically just a big boring list, but it gives me the data to design around.
I'm yet to come up with a real concept behind this work, but I'm sure I'll come up with that soon!

Oops!

I have about five draft posts that I used in preparation for researching my presentation but they really are not worth posting! As for the one below this, it had also been sitting in the draft posts pile for weeks.. I need to keep up to date :) Now I'm in the run up to deadlines I should do this a bit better, hopefully from now on I will post things when I actually write them rather than three weeks later.